In November last year, SR Technics achieved its CAAC (Civil Aviation Administration of China) airworthiness certification.

Kennedy said: “This empowers us to have access to the China market and be able to deliver airworthiness to the Chinese standard. [It] should be a good boost for our business within the region and for SR Technics globally.”

Malaysia operations

SR Technics has a facility in Malaysia which is coming up to its four-year anniversary since launch.

He added: “We have about 220 employees supporting there and it serves as a regional control centre for all of our programme customers. Today, SR Technics supports approximately 1,000 aircraft worldwide. All of those customers that are under contract are managed from that facility, and we've also relocated our global AOG [Aircraft on Ground] desk, which provides a 24-hour service from our Malaysia facility worldwide.”